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Family Relationship of
James Merrill
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
5th cousin 4 times removed to
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Eli Whitney
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
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Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
James Merrill photo by Judith Moffett ( CC BY 3.0)